QUOTE(stetenorve @ Aug 23 2009, 10:04 PM)

If in doubt, check with the AB Guide to Music Theory (Part 2)! Pages 244 and 245 refer to polytonality (of which bitonality is one version). An example is quoted from Bartok where 2 bracketed staves are shown, the upper with a Treble Clef and the key signature for E major and the lower with a Treble Clef and the key signature for A flat major.
Presumably it's not essential to have two different key signatures, if accidentals were used to the same effect? Or is that missing the point?